TYPHOON HAIYAN

WHAT TYPE, AND CATEGORY

• The typhoon Haiyan is said to be the most powerful storm to hit land it was category five and was catastrophic
• After the typhoon hit it caused a flash flood which is a flood that is too quick to respond to and only lasts a day or two but is still very dangerous because the water goes super fast and is capable of flipping cars on top of each other and sometimes even move homes also it can un-root trees.

MAP OF WERE HAIYAN HIT

How a typhoon is formed
1. Typhoons start off as tropical storms. The wind pulls in moisture from the sea.

2. The storm then causes the moisture to heat up.

3.and causes more moisture to go to the center (eye) of the storm all the heat and air flows to the center (eye) of the storm and rotates as shown

WHAT WAS THE INTENSITY

• The typhoon Haiyans highest wind points were 230 km/h or 145mph , was category five and and hit a very poverty struck area

CONSEQUENCE?

• The typhoon Haiyan caused 6,340 deaths around the area and left 1.7 k homeless and the overall cost was $14 billion dollars.

THE PEOPLE’S RESPONSE

• Phillappine authorities moved 800,00 people to evacuation centres but the brick structures could not hold and fell apart killing thousands of innocent phillapine people some who could not get into evacuation center were forced to huddle into there homes while they watched there roof and walls be ripped apart.

WHAT DID THEY LEARN?

• The phillapine people learned to build better structures and to build better safe places and to be better prepared.

HOW MANY DEATHS COMPARED TO HOMELESS

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